It’s over four years since the little boy inside Robin van Persie instructed him to leave Arsenal for Manchester United, but it appears that time is not the great healer it’s made out to be as far as Gooners are concerned.
On the 10th anniversary of perhaps his most iconic goal in an Arsenal shirt – a gravity-defying mid-air volley against Charlton – the north London club chose to mark the occasion with a relatively innocent tweet, admittedly one which began with a cautionary ‘whatever you think of him now’ precursor.
The backlash, however, was as predictable as it was venomous with a host... read more

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